Multimodel GCM-RCM Ensemble-Based Projections of Temperature and Precipitation over West Africa for the Early 21st Century

Figure 6

1981–2000 averaged JJAS of 850 hPa wind vectors (in meters per second) superimposed to specific humidity (shaded in grams per kilogram) from: (a) NCEP reanalysis, (b) ERA-40 reanalysis, (c) ERA-Interim reanalysis, (d) ECHAM5, (e) RegCM3, (f) REMO, (g) Ens/ECHAM5 (ensemble mean of RCMs driven by ECHAM5), (h) HadCM3, (i) RCA, (j) HadRM3P, and (k) Ens/HadCM3 (ensemble mean of RCMs driven by HadCM3).

(a) JJAS NCEP

(b) JJAS ERA-40

(c) JJAS ERA-Interim

(d) JJAS ECHAM5

(e) JJAS RegCM3

(f) JJAS REMO

(g) JJAS Ens/ECHAM5

(h) JJAS HadCM3

(i) JJAS RCA

(j) JJAS HadRM3P

(k) JJAS Ens/HadCM3

(l)